"If I am right in saying that the religious instinct is strong in man & can easilly be awakened, & if one of its constituents is wonderment stimulated by aesthetic experience, then we are justified in underlining a particular aspect of the liturgy - & it is only one aspect.
"The liturgy should always contain within it the beautiful, because beauty is one of the means by which we are led to God. A beautiful thing speaks to us of God. What we love in any creature is only what is a reflection of God. It is the beautiful that can arouse in us wonder, can lead us to a response which is not exclusively rational - & rightly so, in that we are not simply rational beings, but much more.
"The liturgy therefore should... deliberately speak to us of God through beauty. "
- The Intentional Life, Cardinal Basil Hume, O.S.B., p.6
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Update: Immediately after posting, I found a related, interesting article at New Liturgical Movement, one of my favorite blogs. It's all worth a read, but scroll down to A Hermeneutic of Rupture? by Arlene Oost-Zinner on reflections on the Cathedral of Light in Oakland, CA. It illustrates very well the interaction between surroundings & faith - both our individual faith & the Catholic Faith.
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